{"id":17837,"date":"2020-01-08T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17837"},"modified":"2020-01-08T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:02:20","slug":"zim-peoples-party-wants-muzembis-peoples-party-to-change-their-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-peoples-party-wants-muzembis-peoples-party-to-change-their-name","title":{"rendered":"Zim People\u2019s Party Wants Muzembi\u2019s People\u2019s Party To Change Their Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe People\u2019s Party has written to ZEC in a bid to get\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Walter_Mzembi\">Walter Mzembi<\/a>\u2018s newly formed political party People\u2019s Party to change their party\u2019s name, The Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>A letter addressed to ZEC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Priscilla_Chigumba\">Priscilla Chigumba<\/a>\u00a0seen by the publication read in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We note with concern the use of part of our name by your political formation which you and your team decided to call People\u2019s Party (PP).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We take this to be poor political practice which will definitely affect the voters in any future election that our party ZPP and your new party PP will participate in future. Use of similar names, logo colours and letterhead concerns as you and your team adopted is not the best way to go in politics especially when you want voters to have clear choices of candidates in a ballot paper.<\/p>\n<p>ZPP was formed last year in June while Muzembi\u2019s PP was formed this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe People\u2019s Party has written to ZEC in a bid to get\u00a0Walter Mzembi\u2018s newly formed political party People\u2019s Party to change their party\u2019s name, The Herald reports. A letter addressed to ZEC\u2019s\u00a0Priscilla Chigumba\u00a0seen by the publication read in part: We note with concern the use of part of our name by your political formation which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1240,351,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-17837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-muzembi","10":"tag-zec","11":"tag-zpp"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zim People\u2019s Party Wants Muzembi\u2019s People\u2019s Party To Change Their Name - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-peoples-party-wants-muzembis-peoples-party-to-change-their-name\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zim People\u2019s Party Wants Muzembi\u2019s People\u2019s Party To Change Their Name\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zimbabwe People\u2019s Party has written to ZEC in a bid to get\u00a0Walter Mzembi\u2018s newly formed political party People\u2019s Party to change their party\u2019s name, The Herald reports. 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